Quality Engineering Lead

About the role

We are seeking a leader to oversee quality engineering for Pairs, a major dating application with over 25 million registered users. You will build systems that allow both human developers and AI agents to maintain high velocity without compromising product stability.

Key facts

What you'll do

• Define the company-wide quality engineering strategy to support AI-driven development.
• Design and implement automated testing frameworks, CI/CD quality gates, and feedback loops.
• Create environments where AI agents can autonomously detect and fix quality issues.
• Track and visualize metrics such as test coverage, defect rates, incident frequency, and production escapes.
• Identify bottlenecks through data analysis to improve architecture and development processes.
• Lead the hands-on design, implementation, and review of testing infrastructure.
• Manage the quality engineering team, including hiring, goal setting, and professional development.
• Collaborate with product managers to define and measure quality signals that reflect user needs.

Requirements

• Experience as a software engineer, SET, SDET, or quality engineer.
• Background in testing web, mobile, or backend systems.
• Practical knowledge of multi-layer automation, including unit, integration, API, and E2E testing.
• Experience integrating automated quality checks into CI/CD pipelines.
• Ability to build testing tools and infrastructure using programming languages.
• Proven track record of using data to drive technical and organizational improvements.
• Experience managing engineering or quality teams.
• Fluent Japanese communication skills.

Nice to have

• Experience with AI coding agents or generative AI in software development.
• Background in implementing AI for code generation, automated testing, or quality analysis.
• Experience managing quality for high-traffic, large-scale services.
• Expertise in mobile application testing strategies.
• Knowledge of engineering metrics, Shift Left testing, and observability.
• Experience working with global teams using English.

Skills & tools

• Programming: Go, TypeScript, JavaScript, Python
• Infrastructure: MySQL, DynamoDB, Amazon ElastiCache, Elasticsearch, Kubernetes, AWS, Google Cloud, Terraform
• Development: Git, GitHub, GitHub Actions, Docker, Jira Cloud, Slack

Practical notes

• This role involves direct, hands-on technical work alongside strategic leadership.
• You will be responsible for shifting quality ownership across the entire development lifecycle rather than maintaining a siloed QA department.